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CAMEL THORN
Hūšang Aʿlam
(Alhagi Adans. spp.), common name for wild thorny suffrutescent plants of the Papilionaceae family, called šotor-ḵār and ḵār-e šotor (lit. “camel’s thorn”) in Persian.
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CAMERON, GEORGE GLENN
Gernot L. Windfuhr
philologist and historian, b. 30 July 1905 in Washington, Pennsylvania, d. 14 September 1979 in Ann Arbor, Michigan.
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CAMPBELL, JOHN
Kamran Ekbal
(1799-1870), British envoy to Persia, 1830-35.
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CAMPBELL, JOHN NICHOLL ROBERT ii. The Archives
Roya Arab
(1799-1870), British envoy to Iran from 1831 to 1835. The archives left behind by Campbell provide scholars with a comprehensive first-hand account of British and foreign involvement in Iran and Central Asia in the 1800s.
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CAMPHOR
Hūšang Aʿlam
a strong-smelling volatile white solid essential oil obtained from two genera of the camphor tree and used from ancient times in Persia as an aromatic with antiseptic and insect-repelling properties.
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ČAMRŪŠ
Alan V. Williams
a mythical bird that in the Pahlavi books, of all birds of land and sky, is second only to the Sēn bird in worth.
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CANADA i. Iranian Studies in
Colin Paul Mitchell
several factors in the last half-century have led to a rapid expansion of Iranian studies in Canada in the fields of history, literature, language, philosophy, religion, art history, and archaeology.
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CANADA v. Iranian Community in Canada
M. Mannani, N. Rahimieh, K. Sheibani
Canada remains among the most popular destinations for Iranians seeking to emigrate, and Iranian immigrants to Canada are the fifth most numerous of any nationality.
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ČANDARBHĀN BARAHMAN
Cross-Reference
See ČANDRA BHĀN BARAHMAN.
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CANDLE
Mahmoud Omidsalar, J. T. P. de Bruijn
(Pers.-Ar. šamʿ); the Arabic word literally means “beeswax."